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Mental Health Facility Near Cerritos, California

Ocean View Psychiatric Health Facility is a private and supportive environment for individuals 18 and older in need of acute psychiatric care. Our inpatient, partial hospitalization (PHP), and intensive outpatient (IOP) programs near Cerritos provide structured support without stigma. Your licensed, multidisciplinary treatment team helps patients stabilize and manage acute psychiatric symptoms.

We Accept Most Major Insurances

Our Mental Health Facility Near Cerritos, CA

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Ocean View Psychiatric Health Facility offers personalized care and medication stabilization and monitoring for individuals experiencing psychiatric symptoms of mental health disorders. Our multidisciplinary team includes a Medical Director, social workers, mental health professionals, and recreational therapists, who are committed to meeting your specific needs. Located near the city of Cerritos, Ocean View offers comprehensive crisis stabilization and tailored intensive outpatient care to help you regain stability and improve your mental health through an integrative approach.

Getting Started Is Easy

3 Easy Steps​

Contact a Representative
Call to speak with an Ocean View representative.
Verify Insurance
Submit insurance for verification and complete a brief phone assessment.
Schedule Admission
Once approved, we’ll schedule your admission.

How Our Program Differs

We know you’re unique, so we offer acute mental health care tailored to you. With Ocean View, you’ll experience stabilization-focused care that provides structure and support without stigma. With your input, we build partnerships with medical and behavioral health services so you can transition from us to your daily life. We do this by collaborating with your doctor or therapist. 
  • On-Site Team of Psychiatrists: Our on-site psychiatrists provide medication stabilization, monitoring, and management. Your well-being is vital throughout your stay in our inpatient mental health crisis facility and our outpatient services.
  • Case Management & Aftercare Support: Case management begins when you’re admitted to either our inpatient or outpatient program. Our case managers and social workers ensure you have a safe place to go, whether that’s housing or a facility, once you leave us.
  • Transportation Coordination Provided: We offer transportation services coordinated with a trusted provider that takes you to and from inpatient intake and discharge destinations, as well as to/from our on-site outpatient programs. Transportation is provided to patients within a 50-mile radius.
  • Stabilization for Managing Psychiatric Symptoms: Ocean View provides 24/7 inpatient psychiatric care. We also have outpatient treatment programs.
  • Patient Resource Network: Transitioning from inpatient or outpatient treatment can be overwhelming. That’s why we have an opt-in patient follow-up option. You don’t have to manage your symptoms alone.

When Mental Health Disorders Interfere with Daily Life

Acute psychiatric or psychiatric symptoms can significantly affect your day-to-day routine. When the symptoms prevent you from enjoying activities you love or socializing with friends and family, seeking mental health treatment can help you stabilize your symptoms while learning skills to ensure a smooth transition back to your real life. 

Recognizing Signs and Symptoms of Mental Health Disorders

No one experiences the symptoms of a mental health disorder the same way as another individual; that’s why it can be challenging to recognize if you or a loved one is experiencing symptoms of a mental health disorder. 

While some individuals may have extreme mood swings, delusions, paranoia, or hallucinations, others may experience changes in their appetite, sleep patterns, or self-care habits. Ocean View’s medical and mental health team partners with you to develop a specialized treatment plan that meets your needs.

Why Addressing Psychiatric Symptoms Is Important

Seeking early intervention for your psychiatric symptoms with evidence-based treatment is vital to developing positive coping and life skills that can improve long-term outcomes. Treating mental health illnesses early on reduces the risk of the disorder becoming harmful to an individual’s well-being. Early intervention with evidence-based treatment can increase the chances of long-term clinical improvement.

Seeking the Right Psychiatric Support

Ocean View Psychiatric Health Facility is located near Cerritos. You can receive inpatient or outpatient acute psychiatric stabilization treatment in the greater Los Angeles area. When you’re at Ocean View, you will learn about your mental health disorder through evidence-based therapies that include psychoeducational groups and recreation-based support. We provide a safe space to treat your psychiatric crisis.

Comprehensive Programs For Residents In Cerritos, CA

The severity of your mental health symptoms determines the level of psychiatric crisis stabilization intervention you need. Once you have completed a comprehensive evaluation of your medical, psychological, and family member health history, Ocean View’s mental health professionals will admit you to either our acute inpatient unit, partial hospitalization program (PHP), or intensive outpatient program (IOP). Each level offers personalized care tailored to your specific needs.

Inpatient Psychiatric Care

A benefit of residential rehab is that you are in a safe, nonjudgmental space where you can open up and benefit from peer support. During your stay at Ocean View’s private psychiatric health facility, you will feel supported and heard. Our inpatient program provides structured, individualized care and therapeutic services to stabilize symptoms and prepare patients for safe transition to the next level of care. We work with you to create a specialized treatment plan and actively engage you in recognizing mental health symptoms, such as:
  • Insomnia, racing thoughts, impulse actions, or rapid/pressured speech
  • Abnormal bouts of euphoric energy 
  • Reckless behavior or making decisions that affect an individual’s safety or well-being 
  • Inability to provide shelter, food, and safety as a result of mental impairment
  • Helplessness, hopelessness
  • Suicidal or homicidal ideations 
  • Psychosis
  • Self-harming behaviors

Individualized Care

Therapy is an effective way to process harmful or difficult emotions. It helps you discover the underlying reasons for your negative thoughts or destructive behaviors. Individualized sessions are those in which your therapist or social worker knows your goals, personality, and behaviors. This gives your therapist insight into who you are and which type of therapy will benefit you most. Individual therapy can increase self-awareness and growth. Ocean View Psychiatric Health Facility provides:
  • Licensed Psychiatric Care
  • 24/7 Nursing and Monitoring
  • 6 Daily Group Sessions
  • Psychoeducational Groups – These groups focus on understanding acute psychosis and its symptoms.
  • Therapeutic Recreation – therapeutic recreation support includes skills that help you find inner peace (art, painting, music, and animals/pets).
  • Coping Skills Development – Coping skills are essential for managing symptoms and quieting negative thoughts and feelings.
  • Patients are placed in groups based on the severity of their symptoms

Medication Stabilization

When you come to us, we will review your comprehensive health history to determine your needs for acute crisis stabilization. This includes going over your current medications. Ocean View has doctors trained to meet your healthcare needs. They will work with the doctor and psychiatrist who prescribed medications for any health issue you may have. Then, your doctor at Ocean View will prescribe the medicine required for your mental health. 

An essential component of our inpatient crisis stabilization is monitoring and adjusting your medication if necessary.

Flexible Outpatient Treatment Programs

Individuals will transfer from Ocean View’s acute psychiatric inpatient unit to either our PHP or IOP once their symptoms are stabilized. Some individuals enter one of our outpatient programs when their symptoms aren’t severe enough to warrant hospitalization. Once your symptoms are evaluated, you will be admitted to either our partial hospitalization program (PHP) or intensive outpatient program (IOP). Both levels of care provide safe, structured support for your symptom management.
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Partial Hospitalization Program

Our Partial Hospitalization Program offers intensive daytime treatment to promote stabilization and transition to lower levels of care. Furthermore, the flexibility of our PHP allows you to go home at the end of the day. While you are with us, you will receive:
  • Four group sessions a day, meeting five days a week. These sessions include a psychoeducational group led by a social worker and a therapeutic recreation support session led by a recreation therapist.
  • Case management
  • Snacks and lunch

Intensive Outpatient Program

While our IOP is a structured level of care, we provide the same secure, enjoyable, and compassionate care found in our inpatient and PHP levels of care. However, we also include:
  • Focused Coping Skills
  • Community Reintegration

Ongoing Medication Management Support

Our knowledgeable medical staff monitors your response to medication to ensure you receive the correct dose. If the medication isn’t working or the dosage isn’t at a level that works for you, we will adjust it.
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What You Can Expect During Treatment

Entering a psychiatric treatment mental health center can be scary, especially if you don’t know what to expect. When you begin treatment with us, we focus on your specific needs by being a safe space where you feel seen and heard. Our group therapy sessions allow you to discuss and learn about your mental health symptoms with your peers. Furthermore, you will experience kindness, empathy, and individualized attention during your stay.
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Collaborative Care 

Whether you are receiving residential treatment, PHP, or IOP treatment, your psychiatric stabilization needs are our priority. Your multidisciplinary team collaborates with you to develop a treatment plan that meets you where you are in your mental health crisis. Additionally, we invite your doctor or mental health provider to work with our team to ensure a smooth transition back to real life.

Expertise in Acute Psychiatric Needs

At Ocean View, our medical and mental health professionals are trained and licensed in acute psychiatric treatment. Our Medical Director is versed in the best standards of care for medication stabilization and monitoring. The mental health, case managers, and social worker team remains knowledgeable in best practices for short-term psychiatric crisis stabilization.

Supportive and Healing Environment

While you are experiencing significant psychiatric symptoms, being surrounded by kindness and support is essential. When you are with us, we ensure your comfort by providing private, stress-free treatment.

Our 39-bed psychiatric health facility ensures your privacy by designating 80% of the rooms for single occupancy. Here, you can retreat to your room to relax and absorb the information you learned in your psychoeducational groups. Additionally, our supportive structure, daily group programming, and care coordination allow you to focus on your clinical improvement.

Help For a Mental Health Crisis

Taking care of your mental health is essential to your physical and emotional health. Anyone can experience a mental health crisis during their life when they experience symptoms connected with a personality disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder. 

Stabilization services for a mental health crisis can be discussed with your doctor or mental health provider.

Mental Health Conditions We Treat

Individuals admitted to inpatient care at Ocean View are in the most acute phase of their symptoms and receive 24/7 support focused on medication stabilization and safety. Those who attend our PHP or IOP participate in structured groups focused on daily living skills, emotional regulation, and medication adherence. 

Ocean View is a short-term psychiatric health facility that focuses on stabilizing symptoms such as:
  • Hallucinations
  • Delusions
  • Severe depression
Groups are designed to support real-world transition, not to serve as therapy sessions.

The mental health issues we provide symptom stabilization and management for are:
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Self-harm
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Aftercare & Opt-In Patient Follow-Up

Your aftercare plan is developed at the beginning of your mental health care. When you first create your treatment plan, you start planning your transition back into the real world. Our treatment team understands that an individualized aftercare plan that addresses your real-world issues is important. 

Throughout your time with us, you’ll have sessions designed to support real-world transition, not as therapy sessions. A few of these services include:
  • Case manager support
  • Outpatient transitions
  • Housing or facility placements
  • Community support referrals
Our Opt-In Patient Follow-Up (Patient Resource Network) continues to provide support and encouragement after you transition back into your life. 

Getting Started With Ocean View

Ocean View’s empathetic, multidisciplinary team focuses on stabilizing and managing your symptoms in a safe, nonjudgmental environment. Your experience with us will help you reduce stress, increase your emotional and physical well-being, and achieve clinical improvement.

Your Mental Health and Well-Being Is Our Top Priority

We are committed to providing compassionate, stabilization-focused treatment to help you achieve coping and life skills that will support your mental health improvement.

FAQs

Yes, we accept many major insurance providers, including Medicare. The  insurance providers who are in-network include:

  • Aetna, Anthem, BlueCross BlueShield, Carelon, Cigna
  • ComPsych, GEHA, HealthNet, Humana
  • Magellan, Medicare, MHN, MultiPlan
  • Optum, Oscar, Tricare
 Our admissions team is available 24/7 to verify your benefits and help you take the next step.

Ocean View provides aftercare options to ensure a smooth transition back into your life. Your aftercare treatment plan is developed when you partner with your case manager to coordinate:

Aftercare & Follow-Up

  • Outpatient transions
  • Housing or facility placements
  • Community support referrals
Ocean View offers opt-in patient follow-up (Patient Resource Network), which includes:
  • Routine check-ins
  • Ensuring medication continuity
  • Addressing early signs of destabilization

Yes. Ocean View accepts referrals from medical providers, therapists, or case managers. 

No, Ocean View Psychiatric Health Facility is a short-term care mental health facility. Your family is welcome to visit you while you are with us. When you develop your treatment and aftercare plan with your social worker or case manager, they can give you referrals to family support groups or family therapy providers.

Yes, if you are experiencing severe or acute psychiatric symptoms, you can self-admit yourself to an acute psychiatric facility. For example, if you have one or more of the following mental health disorder symptoms, you should seek help:

  • Hallucinations
  • Delusions
  • An overwhelming feeling of depression

Getting help for mental health issues can be challenging. Some with mood disorders like bipolar disorder or anxiety disorders may not believe they need help.

When these thoughts, behavior changes, or other symptoms occur, you or your loved one should contact a healthcare provider to discuss mental health services. Ocean View Psychiatric Health Facility can quickly and judgment-free provide the supportive care needed.

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